
Nate74
HR4FREBR
On Saturday I had my band come over to record. Drums, harp, guitar and bass. Took up 14/channels tracks.
Listening back to the first song we recorded, we noticed a few cracks and pops on the tracks. When I'd solo just one track, I discovered that indeed it wasn't a playback issue and that the cracks were on the recorded tracks. I exported one of the solo'd tracks and heard the pops on another system as well to verify.
This is a new PC to me that I purchased to use with Sonar X1, but decided to track in Sonar 6, because I'm far more familiar with it.
The CPU usage meter was in the 10-13% range durring recording and with this new computer I'd think I could record 50 tracks at the same time with no issues.
Don't know if this is a buffer thing, a driver thing or maybe a clock sync issue as this was the first time I'd used the 8Pre as an extention with the 828???
My setup:
Interface(s): Motu 828mk3 & Motu 8Pre (connected via ADAT to the 828)
PC: 3.2GhZ Pent Dual Core, 8GB RAM, Window 7 64-bit
DAW: Sonar 6 Studio (currently installed at 32-bit)
We tried setting the ASIO buffer as low as 64 and as high as 1028 and had similar issues.
Actually, I don't think it's an issue with the Motu's because we ended up connecting them to my friend's iBook and tracked in Logic with no issues. If it was a clock sync issue, I'd think we would have seen it on his Mac as well.
I'm not even sure where or how to start to chase this gremlin. I can setup 14 mics in my studio and record a single source to try to duplicate the problem while changing things, but I don't know what to try chaning.
Any and all feedback, thoughts and suggestions would be most appreciated!
If you need any additional info on my setup, I can certainly provide that as well.
THANKS in advance!
Listening back to the first song we recorded, we noticed a few cracks and pops on the tracks. When I'd solo just one track, I discovered that indeed it wasn't a playback issue and that the cracks were on the recorded tracks. I exported one of the solo'd tracks and heard the pops on another system as well to verify.
This is a new PC to me that I purchased to use with Sonar X1, but decided to track in Sonar 6, because I'm far more familiar with it.
The CPU usage meter was in the 10-13% range durring recording and with this new computer I'd think I could record 50 tracks at the same time with no issues.
Don't know if this is a buffer thing, a driver thing or maybe a clock sync issue as this was the first time I'd used the 8Pre as an extention with the 828???
My setup:
Interface(s): Motu 828mk3 & Motu 8Pre (connected via ADAT to the 828)
PC: 3.2GhZ Pent Dual Core, 8GB RAM, Window 7 64-bit
DAW: Sonar 6 Studio (currently installed at 32-bit)
We tried setting the ASIO buffer as low as 64 and as high as 1028 and had similar issues.
Actually, I don't think it's an issue with the Motu's because we ended up connecting them to my friend's iBook and tracked in Logic with no issues. If it was a clock sync issue, I'd think we would have seen it on his Mac as well.
I'm not even sure where or how to start to chase this gremlin. I can setup 14 mics in my studio and record a single source to try to duplicate the problem while changing things, but I don't know what to try chaning.
Any and all feedback, thoughts and suggestions would be most appreciated!
If you need any additional info on my setup, I can certainly provide that as well.
THANKS in advance!
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